Switch 2 is one of the features that distinguish its less powerful predecessor. The device was made a lot from this new feature on the announcement of the deviceOne way to communicate with friends while playing games, even their living faces appear like incarnation in sports. This is Nintendo IdeaWii-raa reminds of novelty, so why doesn’t it work in a handheld? Why not switches with a front feeing camera?
It’s weird, okay? You’ve got the device that works in a hybrid model, so when sitting in his dock, it can be applied to a frestand camera, but then when the move will be played-nothing. Still, is not Everything Now is it a cheap small 720p camera? I mean, I did not double -check my electric toothbrush, but I won’t be surprised.
Well, I’m not fully bid for the front camera for anger, can be for device manufacturers. This feature has become very important in cell phones, but often at a significant price for the form of the form-so we finished with the parts filled with God that is out of the upper part of the iPhones, and there are strange mattress holes in Androids, because the bezles are not shrinking and the screen size of the screen. But, if you look at the switch 2, despite the big screen, there is still a reasonable amount of bezel. Especially if it was riding on the left or right. It may have been ugly, perhaps unwanted, but it was definitely possible.
Under the display camera – Even Maybe Samsung is now retreating from them. You have to consider Nintendo’s minimum tech, but realizes that it is very expensive and many years away. (A join for switch 3, maybe?)
But seeing how much a riot is coming from the game chat, is it not strange that sacrifices have not been made? Given that there are ways to integrate the faces of the players into the games, when you allow your friends to see the direct reaction when you crush them and defeat them. Mario Cart Or their celebration dances to provide you Mario PartyIt seems that such a lost opportunity to make special to play at home on TV, and yet, only if the player bought the camera courtyard.
You may wonder if this can be a standard problem. The tech that allows Switch 2 to detect your face, cut it and apply it to your avatar, may require too much pixels for the cheap teenage pineapple camera? Except, okay, the cameras selling Nintendo are not exactly the top -off range. Horie’s Piranha plant camera (Which seems to have disappeared from the US Nintendo Store) It has an incredibly low resolution: 640 x 480. And it will still work.
Pixel 9A phone, which will cost you just like a switched 2 with a camera, has a selfie camera that can film at 4K at 30fps. Through Nintendo, the $ 55 official switch 2 camera can only occupy 1080p, though this is still a great step from Pirnah’s 480p! The thing is, if the tech can work on the 480p camera, then the quality is not clearly a problem, and something that will hardly touch the price of this device.
And let’s not forget that Nintendo is hardly opposed to the camera. The DSI had a camera in Klim Shell’s Beule in 2009, and even more respected, Bonckers Wii U Hand Held Screen Cheese Majeig had a camera in 2012, thus allowing video chat with other players!
I am sure that Nintendo has its own reasons. It may cost, it may be a complete lack of desire to abandon a camera valuable screen size, may not be just as simple ugly. UDC are not viable, and popup cameras introduce a new failure point to a device (but still it seems that this may be a viable solution here). But it is important that this has not happened.
Certainly, when the switch 2 is out of the dock, you can still plug in your camera, but it’s not like you will take it with you and set it on the train! Or in bed. Or anywhere other than your TV.
If the game chat camera -based abilities were really an essential component of switch 2 ethics, handheld device Will Feature these built -in camera. The conversation is that this tech is not only specific to the method in which a person is likely to play at least something Mario CartBut also special to those who make an extra fifty rupees for the camera peripheral. It makes it clear that nothing is ever happened to the game chat with a live video bonus trick.
And honestly, I’m ashamed. On the announcement of Tech, I was extremely passionate for the possibilities that he could offerJust this special connection to the strangeness of Nintendo’s offer. But – and yes, it Is It took me two months to realize it – this is not clearly a priority for a new console. If that were, the switch 2 would have a slight rider 480p camera, and the developers would be encouraged to go wild with tech.
Updated: 06/02/2025, 1:05 pm et: This post included a short line to make it clear that you can still plug the camera into a handheld format in the handheld format.
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